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You can tell I've been off work this week - this is the fourth or fifth post!

There are a few things I keep meaning to pimp to people who may not know about them - I'm going to bundle them here.

Firstly Where I Live Day. This originated five years ago, when a number of us thought it would be nice to learn a little more about the places our LJ friends lived. To enable people to take part more easily, the much missed [livejournal.com profile] frimfram set up a community to post the pictures. That way we got to see places that were the homes of those outside our own friends list - and a few new friendships were formed.

When we decided to do it all again, the decision was to have a weekend to post over, to make it easier - but the community was already called [livejournal.com profile] wild_photos (for Where I Live Day) - which is why Where I Live Day is a weekend...

It is a while since the least Where I Live Weekend but a couple of discussions here and there gave me the impression that there was still interest, I put a post on the comm (Frim made me a co-moderator when she left LJ) asking was anyone still interested. The answer is YES.

So - anyone who wants to join in is very welcome - the posting weekend is July 10th and 11th, but a day or too early or late will not upset anyone, I'm sure. Take as many or as few pictures as you want, and then post to the community over the weekend, and enjoy seeing all the pictures coming in from other points worldwide. Not necessarily the tourist brochure stuff, but the real life stuff.

The comm is friends locked - here's the profile page - do join and then join in!

Secondly - WriterCon UK. This year's annual get together is August 6th to 8th, in Coventry. The official description of the event is Intended Audience: Anyone currently involved with, or wishing to become involved with, the creative side of any fandom as a writer, vidder, artist, beta or reviewer. All levels of experience welcome.

In practice it is just a wonderful chance to be a geek, tosit around talking fandom, the internet, life, the universe, and everything, with others who won't regard you as in any way weird for enjoying those things.

[livejournal.com profile] lilachigh wrote the answers to all the reasons you might think it's not for you here - reasons like 'I won't know anyone', 'my fandom is not very big...', 'I'm shy and hate having to speak to new people' and so on; and I can just say - she is absolutely right.

Everyone is welcome - they really, really are. And it is certainly not intimidating as I gather some of the US Cons are - we have a top number of 40, and there has never been a single slanging match... For more info click here.

Thirdly - the Plot without Porn Challenge. This brilliant idea was [livejournal.com profile] quinara's and the first challenge was last year. I have to hang my head in shame and admit that I didn't get my bit finished in time... but I will this year.

The idea is to write something with a plot "events must progress from beginning to end," and any sex must be relevant to the plot. More info here. The week to post your stories this year will be Friday 13th(!) to 20th August. A good thing to poke the muse for!

Fourthly - for anyone who's got this far - I am polishing up my original Buffyverse long fic, Ten Years After, and posting it at Twisting The Hellmouth - here if anyone would like to reread it, with better punctuation... or even if you would just like to read it for the first time... I think it has stood the test of time quite well.
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